{"id":328,"date":"2007-06-06T21:14:58","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T02:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/06\/06\/robot-reptile-released-into-wild-to-aid-breeding-research\/"},"modified":"2007-11-11T22:56:53","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T03:56:53","slug":"robot-reptile-released-into-wild-to-aid-breeding-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/06\/06\/328-robot-reptile-released-into-wild-to-aid-breeding-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot Reptile &#8220;Released&#8221; Into Wild to Aid Breeding Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">On Stephens Island in New Zealand&#8217;s storm-wracked Cook Strait, the tuatara\u2014one of the most ancient reptile species on Earth\u2014is getting a hand from distinctly 21st-century science (see a New Zealand map). Researchers have placed in the wild a very special male that, like its wild cousins, can put on physical displays to establish its dominance. But this reptile&#8217;s skin is made of rubber, not scales, and its &#8220;heart&#8221; is a nickel-cadmium battery. The alpha male in question is &#8220;Robo-Ollie,&#8221; a robotic tuatara created to help researchers understand the behavior of these rare reptiles, the last species in a family that dates back 200 million years. [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2007\/06\/070606-robot-reptile.html\" target=\"NEW\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Stephens Island in New Zealand&#8217;s storm-wracked Cook Strait, the tuatara\u2014one of the most ancient reptile species on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new_zealand","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-5i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}